4 out of 5 of the babies due this year have now arrived, and have received their blankets. Most with hats, one with shoes! It was great fun making things that I hope will last and be appreciated.
Next I wanted to make a summer bag. No pattern, just make it up as I went from ideas that I'd seen on-line. Consequently I had no idea how much yarn to order, and ended up having to get more but I'm glad with the result. I bought some flexible chopping mats which I could cut with scissors and made a template for the base. I had a small linen bag which I used to make a cover, and hopefully that will give it some strength and stop too much sagging if I end up carrying to much! As they have so much give in them, the temptation to stuff too much in is easily done.
I bought a couple of jute bags from eBay as I wanted to experiment with personalising them. I decorated them with crochet flowers and pearl buttons. I rather like them if I do say so myself. They have a very subtle plastic lining so are damp proof I would think, although I haven't tested out that theory yet!
I have a few more flowers waiting in the wings, or I might even try to think of an alternative way to decorate them (3 new bags arrived today!) Oh joy!
I'm also making a small car seat blanket from some very pretty wool that I ordered 10 years ago when Adam was a baby. It was decided that with the pink speckles in the blue wool, it was too girly and so 5 x 50gm balls have languished in my stash bag ever since. It will just be enough for the blanket, but I will probably need to make the border by picking out the colours of the bobbly bits and trying to match them to colours I already have. We'll have to see.